Governors Island Blog

Visitors to Soissons Dock may notice that there is something different about our front door, but not be able to place their finger on it. As part of on-going maintenance we re-painted the big gantries that work the liftbridges. RED! Red? Why red? Why not red…

A nod to the history of red working maritime structures on Governors Island and in the harbor – navigational towers, buoys, gantry cranes. A red front door is a traditional sign of welcome. Welcome and enter here…

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